Hear all the news, and Ian’s journey as a long-time film fan, with this audio-only podcast episode. Will the Somerville Theatre still continue to show 70mm films? You bet your butts they will. ADA accommodations are first come-first serve, so we strongly recommend reaching out ahead of time. Entertaining the community with stage and screen since 1914. And come the fall, music returns to the area in a big way with a new 500-person capacity ballroom that should serve Somerville well since Johnny D’s closed back in 2018.Īnd, of course, big on Jim’s mind was 70mm. Once you have purchased your ticket (s) please email us at or call (617) 625-4088 with your requirements, requests, and/or questions. Somerville Theatre, Somerville, Massachusetts. The main theater of 900 seats features Dolby EX Digital sound and has 24 surround speakers, and is one of the few theaters in the country able to show. It also rents out its space for concerts and events, though the theater does not produce live shows itself. Beginning later this summer, 2021, the Somerville Theatre will reopen its doors to the public to show movies once more. Entertaining the Community with Stage and Screen since 1914, the Somerville Theatre is a first-run movie theater. For more than 100 years this space has provided the densely populated city outside of Boston, MA with entertainment ranging from shows and movies, and all sorts of events. The Somerville Theatre celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014. Ian’s spent a good portion of his professional life managing cinemas, including the past 19 at the Somerville Theatre. At over 100 years old, the Theatre is sure to have something for everyone. Joining Jim and Teal to discuss those changes, and what the Somerville Theatre has in store for fans of all types of entertainment is Ian Judge, Creative Director of The Somerville Theatre. Stop by Somerville Theatre for new and old films, plays, and special series. Additionally, the Somerville Theater also hosts concerts and live music events featuring popular regional and international touring acts. Based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys famed 1890s ballet The Nutcracker, it combines high culture with burlesque tradition and gathers together local. But good news awaits those fans of cinema, and seeing films projected in formats such as 35MM and 70MM, the Somerville Theatre is set to reopen its doors later this summer, and with some exciting new changes. Ballet-parody masterpiece The Slutcracker has been delivering raunchy, ribald revelry and erotic good vibrations to Somerville Theatre audiences since 2008. But since March of 2020 the pandemic’s kept the theatre closed. Please see attached image for more details.The Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts is one of Jim’s all-time favorite cinema haunts. As they rally a world-wide network of supporters and politicians, they cautiously step into the media’s glare – and are forced to confront the events that made Julian a global flashpoint.įollowing the film will be a conversation with Julian’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, moderated by Harvard professor Biella Coleman. ![]() ![]() Now it’s up to Julian’s father, John Shipton, and fiancé Stella Moris, to join forces to advocate for Julian on this international odyssey. This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with Julian’s health declining in a British maximum-security prison, the clock is ticking. Now with Julian facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system. The Hobbs Crystal Ballroom was originally part of the theater when it opened in 1914. Find Squitch Somerville tickets, appearing at Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre in Massachusetts along with Pink Naval, RONG, and Kind Being on at 8:00 pm. The world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. The Somerville Theatre is bringing back a ballroom to its second floor. Somerville Theater: Main Theatre (Cinema 1)Ī moving and intimate portrayal of one father’s fight to save his son, Ithaka exposes the brutal realities of the campaign to free Julian Assange.
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